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...English clergyman, Edward Stone, found that willow tea eased the agues of malaria. By 1840, chemists isolated salicylic acid and thought they had a wonder drug, only to have physicians drop it quickly because it had too many harmful side effects. In 1853, Charles Frédéric Gerhardt did a bit of molecular manipulation in his Strasbourg laboratory and made acetylsalicylic acid (C9HSO4). Having found it, he failed utterly to appreciate its value, and put it on the shelf...
...Malpasset Dam, which broke on Dec. 2, 1959, nearly wiped out the French town of Fréjus and drowned more than 400 people. Among the dead was a young man named André Capra...
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